Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The Environmental Protection Agency will host a meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Fair Lawn Community Center to discuss ongoing remediation efforts at the Fair Lawn Well Field
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Environmental Protection representatives will hold an informational public meeting Thursday night at the Fair Lawn Community Center on remediation efforts being undertaken at the Fair Lawn Well Field Superfund site. The Fair Lawn Well Field, also known as the Westmoreland Well Field, was added to the EPA's National Priorities List of hazardous waste sites in 1983 after contaminants were found at three municipal wells that supply drinking water to Fair Lawn residents. Fisher Scientific, Sandvik and Eastman Kodak were identified as potentially responsible parties for the groundwater contamination, which has since been significantly reduced through the installation of air strippers. The …
Monday, February 20, 2012
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said they are taking care of cleanup at the Borden Chemical site in Fair Lawn
A hazardous waste site in Fair Lawn that appeared last week on an environmental group’s list of toxic sites left uncontrolled by the Environmental Protection Agency is in fact being overseen by the state, a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said Friday. While groundwater contaminants still exist at the Borden Chemical site, located at 8-10 22ndSt., they are being monitored through quarterly progress reports, NJDEP spokesman Larry Hajna said. Most recently, the site opted in to the Licensed Site Remediation Professionals (LSRP) Program, which oversees the remediation of contaminated sites on behalf of the NJDEP. The issue came to light Wednesday when Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) …
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental watchdog group, announced Wednesday that Fair Lawn has an additional superfund-eligible site
Although it poses risks equal to or greater than Superfund-listed sites, a potentially environmentally hazardous site in Fair Lawn was left off the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund National Priority List, according to a statement released Wednesday by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The Borden Chemical site, located at 8-10 22nd St., was one of 27 New Jersey sites identified by environmental watchdog group PEER as being Superfund-eligible but uncontrolled by the EPA. Superfund is the name of the environmental program established to address abandoned hazardous waste sites. Once a toxic site is identified and added to the National Priorities List, EPA can clean up the site or compel the responsible party to …
Thursday, January 19, 2012
According to the federal EPA, the aggregate toxic chemicals in NJ's air and water is on the rise
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
(Edit. Note: Three sites in Fair Lawn are listed as polluters on the TRI map for 2010, including Nabisco which is the second largest polluter in Bergen County, as determined by the EPA, due to its release of ammonia. The other two polluters in town are Fisher Scientific and Biomet, for their release of formaldehyde and chromium, respectively.) By Colleen O'Dea, NJ Spotlight The amount of toxic chemicals released into New Jersey’s air and water in 2010 rose by almost 2.5 percent, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxics Release Inventory, climbing from 12.9 million pounds in 2009 to more than 16 million pounds in 2010. “An increase in toxics in our air and water is a big problem," said Dena Mottola Jaborska, executive …
bill wolfe
11:56 am on Thursday, February 23, 2012
Readers - see this Press of Atlantic CIty Report for an example of how a good reporter covered this story: Group finds site of former Hammonton dry cleaner overlooked for Superfund designation http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/group-finds-site-of-former-hammonton-dry-cleaner-overlooked-for/article_617c3f6c-5dc2-11e1-8c3f-0019bb2963f4.html more ›